Love help: I am 24 years old and I have no friends. - Help.com

you know… i was feeling the same way just now and i googled it because i… i loved psychology last year in high school, so i’ll try to help (but heck i’m no professional).

Behavioral psychology contends that our actions are shaped by conditioning.
it says that, over a period of time, your trust can be rebuilt with repeated positive experiences. For example, if your boyfriend was unfaithful, you won’t initially trust the next man you date. But, when a man consistently demonstrates his reliability, despite your more critical evaluation of his actions, he might earn your trust. These common but painful human experiences contribute to your growth and psychosocial development. so, take baby steps and get close to someone you know cannot run away from you or harm you: i.e. your family (preferably), if not that maybe you could volunteer at an old folks home or orphanage… both those opportunities allow you to get close to someone that wont run away or hurt you.

cognitive:
this is what helped me aleiviate depression. i was suicidal by the way, so it works. it requires constant work on your part though. you seem mentally tough though. i pasted this off google somewhere (if that’s a citation lol). it’s between the “…’s”

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Adversity - The issue that you face:
My friend has not rung me today

Belief - The negative belief generated by the advsersity:
‘My friend has not rung me, s/he probably is talking… about me’

Consequence - How you feel as a result:
‘I feel awful, i simply can’t trust this person’

Disputation - Challenge the belief, generating many other reasons for the adversity:
‘Perhaps my friend is feeling down and, on the contrary, wants me to call
‘no, everyone can’t be like this because i know X person who is trust worthy’

Energise - note how you feel

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psychotherapy: don’t know much about this. but as a child you had some serious social trauma. as a result you have serious social insecurities. clearing up these insecurities you had as a child with a therapist usually helps. … with a good therapist this may eventually (after say a few months of therapy) mean confronting your childhood memories live… i.e. seeing that old boyfriend and resolving the hate (though definitely not associating with him) (this resolves a lot of the self hate)

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your brain has a structure than all of your understanding of the world comes from. if that understanding is skewed, then you could be… screwed. it’s like a computer program that has a programming error, it just doesn’t work quite right. thank god for neuroplasticity. this means you brain can reshape itself and rewire itself (literally). essentially, this is what this method eventaully does. when i did it, i kinda felt mentally fatigued. it was TIRING to think healthily for me. but that shows that it works. requires willpower which i think the whole praying and eventually getting what you wanted for a short time evidenced.

further, he also talked about how most pessimistic thoughts are skewed. look for the three p’s: personal, permanent, pervasive. if you make claims that are any one of those, that means you’re likely thinking something innaccurate about yourself or people in general. btw, almost all thoughts are skewed … in equal number with normal people, except for people who have problems, they are skewed unhealthily.

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you’ll be fine. maybe set aside a lot of time every day for the next 3 weeks to where your only goal is to implement this and say see a therapist. you’ll be happy, i promise.
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i hope i was of help.